effecting

Example Sentences

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Working with the Rock Liberation Front offers the only clear means for effecting change.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

"You have companies that are reasonably similar, so when growth rates change it is effecting quite a few companies in a similar way," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025

We are "committed to effecting a seamless transition as we prepare to join Deloitte," the memo said.

From Reuters • Oct. 10, 2023

As critical American institutions, they would thus be effecting important public values.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2023

Strange that success in effecting an escape should be promoted by the bursting of a boiler—an accident which, had it come alone, would have occasioned terror and dismay.

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